Meditations on "Recovery"

Tuesday August 13, 2013
In steps one, two and three, we admitted that we were powerless over our dependencies and our lives were unmanageable; we came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity and, we made a decision to turn our will and our life over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Monday August 12, 2013
What do people in recovery do when they encounter dark and difficult times?

Friday July 26, 2013
Sometimes, when it suits our agenda, we make excuses for not telling the truth.

Thursday July 25, 2013
We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.

Tuesday July 23, 2013
For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made us understand that this light is the brightness of the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.

Friday June 21, 2013
What are we doing from day to day, even moment to moment, to train ourselves to hear and respond to the voice of God?

Thursday June 20, 2013
The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

Thursday April 18, 2013
King David lied, cheated, committed adultery and murder.

Thursday April 11, 2013
One day while Jesus was preaching God’s word, four men arrived at the house where Jesus was, carrying a paralyzed man on a mat.

Wednesday April 3, 2013
Jesus risen from the dead? Jesus alive? Initially the disciples found it hard to believe Jesus was with them as a real person with real help for their real problems.

Monday February 25, 2013
What we think leads to what we do. Thought almost always precedes action, yet thinking can be inaccurate and miss the mark.

Tuesday February 12, 2013
To begin our new life in recovery we need to permit God to remove from us our old “ways of insanity”.